Terrorism and global business performance

Terrorism- A Global Challenge

[The definition of Terrorism] Lately, a lot of military actions are claimed as acts of terrorism, as a result of the lack of a universal definition of terrorism. States and military organizations name each other terrorists, since states and military organizations have particular interests such as religious, economical and political power. There are two different ways of thinking, one believe th...

Scale Invariance in Global Terrorism

Traditional analyses of international terrorism have not sought to explain the emergence of rare but extremely severe events. Using the tools of extremal statistics to analyze the set of terrorist attacks worldwide between 1968 and 2004, as compiled by the National Memorial Institute for the Prevention of Terrorism (MIPT), we find that the relationship between the frequency and severity of terr...

Introducing the Global Terrorism Database

Compared tomost types of criminal violence, terrorismposes special data collection challenges. In response, there has been growing interest in open source terrorist event data bases. One of the major problems with these data bases in the past is that they have been limited to international events—those involving a national or group of nationals from one country attacking targets physically loca...

How can business cope with terrorism?

“What can business do to cope more successfully with terrorism?” The policy against terrorism available to business is a neglected issue in the scholarly literature especially in so far as individual firms rather than the business sector as a whole are concerned. Two sets of proposals are advanced, based on an economic analysis of terrorism. The first set discusses possibilities to reduce terro...

Remittances and terrorism: A global analysis